Alexey Navalny asks Google, Meta to launch 'information front' against Putin over invasion

Russia’s jailed opposition leer and most vocal critic of Vlimir Putin’s regime, Alexey Navalny, on Thursday called on tech giants Google and Meta/Facebook and or social media giants to launch an ‘information front’ against Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. Navalny suggested that social media must challenge Putin’s grip on information and must get facts out to ordinary Russians about reality of ongoing war. He urged West to support a huge campaign to snub Moscow’s war propaganda machine. embattled pro-democracy leer urged that Western media must run a campaign to show what he described as “brutal and bloody reality” of Kremlin’s so-called “special military operation.”   

'Truth and free speech' hits Putin's regime like javelins: Navalny 

In a series of tweets fired from his official account, Navalny claimed that “truth and free speech” hits Putin's “insane regime” worse than javelins. Labelling Russian leer as a “war criminal” Navalny stated that West needs to comprehend that at least 75% of Russians do t support war in Ukraine, but are unaware of situation due to Kremlin’s stringent policies that limit freedom of expression and free flow of information inside Russia.

Navalny n informed that one of State Duma deputies from Putin's United Russia party, also a former journalist, h demanded imprisonment of a local deputy for calling Putin a "tyrant" and starting an anti-war movement. He also iterated recent arrest of a Russian citizen who posed standing on street holding Tolstoy's book "War and Peace,” to condemn ongoing conflict. 

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“Do t forget that main propagandist of war w is TV at all, but Russian IT giant Yandex,” asserted Navalny, ding that it is heavily regulated and main source of information for 41% of Russian population. “Majority of Russian citizens have a completely distorted idea of what is happening in Ukraine. For m, Putin is waging a small, very successful war with little bloodshed,” said Navalny, ding that Russians believe that war in Ukraine is a hoax and that Moscow has ordered a “military operation.”

Hundreds of Russians are facing charges for speaking out against war, warned Navalny as he appealed to both Google and Meta and a number of Western political leers on launching a crackdown on Russian war propaganda  in “a thre about how to open a second front against Kremlin war criminal.” As Russia launched a military invasion in Ukraine, Russia’s state media regulator, Roskomnzor, h immediately put out a warning over “false” information. It also threatened domestic internet resources and networks with a fine of up to 5 million rubles if found distributing “unreliable socially significant information.”